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Fashionable Fidgets and Journeys Through Time
A long, satirical piece warns women to vet suitors for timeliness and restraint, contrasting a fidgety future husband with steady partners. It recounts a narrator’s fiancé Tompkins, his obsession with trains, packing rituals, and punctuality, then shifts to travel hardships from colonial routes to 18th century roads and ferries, ending with musings on historical dress and the undertaker trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tompkins
James Payn
New York
Philadelphia
Benjamin Transin
Amboy
Delaware
New York Bay
New Jersey
Franklin
Assembly
North America
Obadiah
Scotch Johny
America
Fashon
Reynolds
Gainsborough
Lord Derwentwater
Cameron
Selwyn
Aira
Hion
Tyburn
Johnson
Irene
Wilkes
Paris
Baron Holbach
Kensington
Tak
Brooklyn Eagle